Data science in production and the complex layers of engineering required to implement each stage.

Interesting problems to solve with data science – in education, social policy and other domains.

Who should attend?

Data scientists.

Data engineers.

Data enthusiasts.

Product managers.

Decision-makers and business leaders.

Researchers.

Representatives from the government.

Conference Dinner

Those who have purchased the Networking data scientist or networking dinner ticket have access to an exclusive conference dinner with speakers, editors, the HasGeek team, and invited guests on 27 July.

Childcare at The Fifth Elephant

We also welcome children at The Fifth Elephant. If you are a primary caretaker who wants to attend the conference, and needs support with childcare, we have it all arranged. Learn more.

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Funded by Sequoia Capital and Yuri Milner’s DST global, GO-JEK’s mission is formalising the informal sector to provide a one stop mobile application for the daily needs of Indonesia, the 4th largest country in the world. We partner with more than 200,000 experienced and trustworthy motorcycle, car and truck drivers to provide our customers with a wide array of services. These include payments, people logistics, hyperlocal delivery, food delivery, e-commerce logistics, O2O, lifestyle and home improvement services.

GO-JEK has recently established an R&D centre in Bangalore to tap into India’s talent pool, and is looking to hire passionate engineers and data scientists.

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PayU uses its payments heritage and expertise to deliver financial services in emerging markets. Our local operations in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa enable us to be experts in these countries and provide the best solutions for the local market.

PayU is the leading online payment service provider in 16 high growth markets, dedicated to creating a fast, simple and efficient payment process for merchants and buyers. Our 250+ payment methods and PCI certified platforms are designed to meet every consumer’s needs.

The markets in which PayU operates represent a potential consumer base of nearly 2.3 billion people and a huge growth potential for merchants. PayU has more than 1,800 payment specialists based in these local markets supporting PayU’s 200,000+ merchants and the millions of consumers making online payments.

By bringing together online, mobile, and social with our 11,000+ stores around the world, @WalmartLabs is creating a seamless experience for customers to shop in the way that’s most convenient for them - anytime and anywhere. When you combine our unmatched assets in retail with our commitment to building best-in-class eCommerce capabilities, we’re positioned to serve customers in ways no one else can. Our technology center in Bangalore is a key part of a global push to strengthen Walmart’s business. Our teams are all engaged in cutting edge engineering and process development to make Walmart operate more efficiently. Using enhanced data analytics, we help predict what customers will need and want next.

A culture of curiosity and exploration awaits you at @WalmartLabs. Our culture is incorporated into every aspect of our business, and is unique. As diverse as we are, we’re bound together by a common way of doing business that drives performance and creates a positive place for us to work.

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Founded in 1983, Intuit serves 42 million customers in North America, Europe, Australia and Brazil, with revenue of $4.7 billion in its fiscal year 2016. The company has approximately 7,900 employees with major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Australia and other locations.

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IQLECT is a real-time and predictive big data analytics SaaS platform. The platform is loaded with numerous apps for monitoring and analyzing devices, applications, websites, sensors, logs, databases and more.

IQLECT’s approach to analytics includes features such as real-time analysis, predictive modeling, unsupervised learning, data science on streaming data, complex event processing, anomaly detection, machine learning, reporting, and notifications. The entire platform and the apps have a novel architecture built using IQLECT’s own NoSQL database BangDB.

The organization began operation in 2015 and has steadily built the product since then. The company has been working with several enterprise clients and partners and has recently launched their SaaS offering.

Diversity Sponsor

Intuit Inc. is committed to powering prosperity around the world for consumers, small businesses and the self-employed through its ecosystem of innovative financial management solutions.

Its flagship products and services include QuickBooks® and TurboTax®, which make it easier to manage small businesses and tax preparation and filing. QuickBooks Self-Employed provides freelancers and independent contractors with an easy and affordable way to manage their finances and save money at tax time, while Mint delivers financial tools and insights to help people make smart choices about their money.

Intuit’s ProConnect brand portfolio includes ProConnect Tax Online, ProSeries® and Lacerte®, the company’s leading tax preparation offerings for professional accountants.

Founded in 1983, Intuit serves 42 million customers in North America, Europe, Australia and Brazil, with revenue of $4.7 billion in its fiscal year 2016. The company has approximately 7,900 employees with major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Australia and other locations.

Exhibition Sponsor

Uber India Engineering is dedicated to creating a world with clean, unclogged cities and reliable transportation everywhere, for everyone. The only engineering presence for Uber in Asia is assembling the smartest minds in tech to realize its vision of solving some of the world’s biggest urban transportation challenges. Our specific focus is to get Uber magic to emerging markets - next billion riders/drivers onto Uber platform.

We have engineering teams located in Bangalore and Hyderabad.
Engineering/product teams at Uber Bangalore are working on the following areas focused on drivers, riders and platforms:
Rider and Driver: Our engineering teams are at the forefront of scaling Uber’s rider and driver technologies worldwide, with a special focus on solving transportation for emerging markets.
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Global Vehicle Platform: Our Global Vehicle Platform team is building a Vehicle Lifecycle Management platform for vehicles and fleets at Uber.
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We are looking to hire engineers, product managers, data scientists, researchers, product designers for all of the above teams.

Venue Partner

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Our CloudOps platform uses a unique blend of automation delivered via technology combined with human intelligence to drastically reduce the workload of your in-house DevOps team by freeing them from the worry of managing RTB (Run The Business) issues.

E2E’s was the first company in India to launch contract free computing way back in 2009. We followed this up by launching our hourly billed pure SSD public cloud and private cloud. Our Cloud Infrastructure has been used by many well-known Indian Startups for their journey from Seed Level to Unicorn Stage and beyond.

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The USP of Razorpay’s payment platform is its ‘Checkout’ feature, that allows customers to start and end the payment process on a single page without any re-directs, leading to better payment success rates and customer retention rates. Razorpay’s solution comes with a powerful dashboard that allows merchants to track key business metrics as well as get customized reports. The dashboard also enables merchants to easily handle customer refunds at a click of a button.
Being an innovator in the payments domain, Razorpay has received many accolades in a short span of time. Last year Razorpay won the Nasscom ‘League of 10’ Companies and it won the Financial Express ‘Software Product of the Year’, Runner-up and the bronze award for the ‘Best POS innovation by PYMNTS.com this year. Founders of Razorpay, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar were recently selected for the prestigious ‘Forbes 30 Under 30’ 2017. Razorpay is also backed by marquee investors like Tiger Global, Matrix Partners and Mastercard.

Snacks Partner

Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth. Harnessing the capabilities of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges.

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The Fifth Elephant is presented to you by HasGeek.

HasGeek helps people in technology meet each other, collaborate on new opportunities and advance the state of the art. We organize conferences, hacknights, workshops and geekups, and provide tools for communities to self-organize.

HasGeek is a technology company in the media business, bringing software automation to a traditionally people-intensive operation. HasGeek has organized over two dozen conferences attended by thousands of technology professionals, made several thousand connections, and built open source tools that are now used by many communities.